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NITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

SIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS-TO THE NATIONAL' SHELF AND FILE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER-FILE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,890, dated August 15, 1882.

l Application filed May 19, -1882. (Model.) i

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD D. DOREMUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington city, in the District of Columbia,v

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-File Holders, ot' which the following is a specilication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a file-holder for the preservation of papers which from the simplicity ot' construction, convenience, and ease of operation will greatly facilitate the filing ot' and reference to its contents.

The file-holder is of the usual or vany convenient form, constructed of wood or metal, having a central raised strip or slide-bar, forming a partof its floor. This slide-bar has suflicient space at either side and below it to allow an encircling band or buckle formed upon the lower end of .a metal supporting-lever to slide freely upon and about it. The metal supporting-lever, with its buckle and attachments, I shall call the lever-buckle.'77 This l prefer to make with a straight or nearly straight standard, projecting a short distance below the rear side ofthe buckle and upward until it reaches toabout the center of the compressing board or follower, where it is provided with a pair of cross-bars connected together (front and back) by a suitably-formed stud. Above the standard and connected cross-bars the leverbuckle ends with any conveniently-shaped handle. The compressing-follower is longitudinally slotted near its center, and is provided with a groove or channel of a breadth and depth equal to the length andtbickness of the front connected crossbar, and in which said cross-bar may move with the necessary rolling or rocking motion. One end of the slot in the follower is enlarged to give room to enter the front cross-bar, which being done, the stud occupies the groove and acts as a braces; l), the lever-buckle; E, the slide-bar;

the buckle; g, the cross-bars, and h the stud on which the follower is pivoted.

To operate the file-holder when papers are held by the follower, I press lightly` upon the upper end or handle of the lever-buckle D, releasing the bucklefand throwing it out of connection with the slide-bar E, by which means the follower C is tilted back or withdrawn. In compressing the papers it is necessary only to push the follower C and leverbuckle D forward upon the papers,when the lever-buckle becomes effective in supporting the follower and papers and in maintaining the pressure given by the hand.

With this description of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A supporting-lever for file-holders having an extension beyond or above its pivotal point on the com pression-follower to be used as a handle with which to set free said compressingfollower.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence ot' two witnesses.

W. D. DOREMUS.

Witnesses:

W. C. DUVALL, J. G. LANG. 

